The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

What good is safety if you're dead inside?

The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.

Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.

It's a god-eat-god world.

Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while